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Folklore Program welcomes John McDowell, visiting Professor
Folklore Program welcomes John McDowell, visiting Professor
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Berkeley Folklore Graduate Wins 2018 Don Yoder Graduate Prize
Berkeley Folklore Graduate Wins 2018 Don Yoder Graduate Prize

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For Our Future Generations: Bringing Karuk Baskets Back Home
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Mar 20
From Potosí to Tennessee
March 20, Alex Chavez guest lecture at UC Berkeley, 5 pm, 221 Kroeber Hall. #folkloreroundtable #ucberkeley #berkeley #soundstudies #performancestudies #folklorico #latinx #huapangoarribeño
March 20: Alex Chavez (Asst. Professor, U. Notre Dame) guest lecture on leveraging sound as a cultural resource across contested borders, and the US-Mexico border specifically. 5 pm, Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley. #folkloreroundtable #ucberkeley #berkeley #alexchavez #folklore #folklorico #soundstudies #musicstudies #performancestudies #latinx #huapangoarribeño
March 20: Alex Chavez (Asst. Professor, U. Notre Dame) guest lecture on leveraging sound as a cultural resource across contested borders, and the US-Mexico border specifically. 5 pm, 221 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley. #folklore #folkloreroundtable #ucberkeley #berkeley #alexchavez #tennessee #soundstudies #folklorico #folkmusic #performancestudies #musicstudies #latinx #huapangoarribeño
Tuesday Feb 6, 2018: talk on #Trinidad #Carnival by anthropologist Philip Scher, Dean of Social Sciences at University of Oregon, at the #UCBerkeley #FolkloreRoundtable. 5-7 pm, 221 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley. He will be discussing #arthistory #ethnomusicology #caribbeanhistory #unesco #reenactment #folkart and the politics of #culturalheritage in #Trinidad. Come.
Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin...the K was for Kroeber...was the daughter of anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, who founded the Anthropology program UC Berkeley. The Berkeley Folklore Archive is located in Kroeber Hall, a campus building named after her family. As a child, she lived in Berkeley and attended many meetings of anthropologists and linguists studying native Californian cultures & languages. She died this week at age 88. #berkeley #folklore #kroeber #ursulakleguin #scifi #speculativefiction
spring 2018 classes up on our website: folklore.berkeley.edu #folklore #anthropology #ethnomusicology #berkeley #ucberkeley #springclasses
Today! 12/6 talk on quinceañeras, critical Latinx Folkloristics for the 21st century, and participatory ethnographic fieldwork practices. 4:30-6:00 pm, 554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley. #berkeley #folklore #Latinx #ucberkeley #quinceañera
Critical Latinx Folkloristics: an Upcoming talk by Dr. Rachel Gonzalez-Martín. Wednesday 12/6/17 @ 554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley. 4:30-6:00 Pm. #folklore #ucberkeley #ethnicstudies #genderstudies #ethnography #berkeley #quinceañera #folkloreroundtable
Critical Latinx Folkloristics: an Upcoming talk on 12/6/17 @ 554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley. 4:30-6:00 Pm. #folklore #ucberkeley #ethnicstudies #genderstudies #ethnography #berkeley #quinceañera #latinas #folklife #criticaltheory #folkloreroundtable
Critical Latinx Folkloristics: an upcoming talk by Dr. Rachel Valentina Gonzalez-Martín. Wed 12/6/17 554 Barrows Hall @ UC Berkeley. #folklore #latinx #ucberkeley #genderstudies #ethnicstudies #quinceañera #folklife #rachelgonzalezmartin #raceclassgender #youth #latinas #chicanostudies #utaustin #intersectionalfeminism #mexicanamerican #folkloreroundtable